Definition of Bracts. Meaning of Bracts. Synonyms of Bracts

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Definition of Bracts

Bract
Bract Bract, n. [See Bractea.] (Bot.) (a) A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises. (b) Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower. Note: Bracts are often inconspicuous, but sometimes large and showy, or highly colored, as in many cactaceous plants. The spathes of aroid plants are conspicuous forms of bracts.

Meaning of Bracts from wikipedia

- of papery bracts, called the lemma (lower bract) and palea (upper bract), while each spikelet (group of florets) has a further pair of bracts at its base...
- cone bract length was often used to divide the larches into two sections (sect. Larix with short bracts, and sect. Multiserialis with long bracts), but...
- in the genus. The inflorescence consists of large colourful sepal-like bracts which surround three simple waxy flowers, gaining po****rity for the plant...
- (Cyperaceae). There are two other types of bracts in the spikelets of gr****es: the lemma and palea. In gr****es, two bracts known as "glumes" form the lowermost...
- incon****uous, highlighted by several brightly colored modified leaves called bracts. The bracts can vary in color, ranging from white, red, mauve, purple-red, or...
- subtended by a bract, called a "palea" or "receptacular bract". These bracts are often called "chaff". The presence or absence of these bracts, their distribution...
- While most of the wild trees have white bracts, some selected cultivars of this tree also have pink bracts, some even almost a true red. They typically...
- modified leaves, the bracts, which in Xerochrysum, as in most Gnaphalieae, are petal-like, stiff, and papery. Arranged in rows, these bracts curl over and enclose...
- Umbellate cymes; bracts modified, non-petaloid; fruits oblong, red; stone walls filled with cavities: Subgenus Afrocrania. Dioecious, bracts 4. Cornus volkensii...
- bihai), their cup-shaped bracts storing water for birds and insects. This plant, however, has pendulous inflorescences with the bracts facing downwards, the...